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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200503-26
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Severity: Normal
Title: Sylpheed, Sylpheed-claws: Message reply overflow
Date: March 20, 2005
Bugs: #84056
ID: 200503-26
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Synopsis
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Sylpheed and Sylpheed-claws contain a vulnerability that can be
triggered when replying to specially crafted messages.
Background
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Sylpheed is a lightweight email client and newsreader. Sylpheed-claws
is a 'bleeding edge' version of Sylpheed.
Affected packages
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Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected
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1 mail-client/sylpheed < 1.0.3 >= 1.0.3
2 mail-client/sylpheed-claws < 1.0.3 >= 1.0.3
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2 affected packages on all of their supported architectures.
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Description
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Sylpheed and Sylpheed-claws fail to properly handle non-ASCII
characters in email headers when composing reply messages.
Impact
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An attacker can send an email containing a malicious non-ASCII header
which, when replied to, would cause the program to crash, potentially
allowing the execution of arbitrary code with the privileges of the
user running the software.
Workaround
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There is no known workaround at this time.
Resolution
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All Sylpheed users should upgrade to the latest version:
# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=mail-client/sylpheed-1.0.3"
All Sylpheed-claws users should upgrade to the latest version:
# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=mail-client/sylpheed-claws-1.0.3"
References
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[ 1 ] Sylpheed ChangeLog
http://sylpheed.good-day.net/#changes
[ 2 ] CAN-2005-0667
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2005-0667
Availability
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This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at
the Gentoo Security Website:
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200503-26.xml
Concerns?
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Security is a primary focus of Gentoo Linux and ensuring the
confidentiality and security of our users machines is of utmost
importance to us. Any security concerns should be addressed to
security@xxxxxxxxxx or alternatively, you may file a bug at
http://bugs.gentoo.org.
License
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Copyright 2005 Gentoo Foundation, Inc; referenced text
belongs to its owner(s).
The contents of this document are licensed under the
Creative Commons - Attribution / Share Alike license.
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0
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